Aspekti daoizma u djelima Ursule K. Le Guin

During her life, Ursula K. Le Guin described herself as “an unconsistent Taoist and a consistent unChristian” (Wood 8 qtd. in Filho 50). Unsurprisingly, Daoist ideas and concepts imbue much of her creative opus. Even if she does not directly engage with the ideas, tenets of Daoist philosophy manifest throughout her worlds and characters, and although Daoist concepts might be difficult for a Western audience to understand, Le Guin shapes her worlds around them. This paper will explore how and to what end Le Guin employs Daoist concepts in her novels A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), and The Lathe of Heaven (1971), focusing mostly on the concepts of dao 道 and de 德, yin 陰and yang 陽, ziran 自然 and wuwei 無為, transformation, and the Daoist understanding of the impermanence of language, their role in the Daoist understanding of the world and their influence on Le Guin’s worldbuilding and narratives.